A cold front is characterized as the change zone where a cool air mass is supplanting a hotter air mass. Cold fronts for the most part move from northwest to southeast. The air behind a cold front is recognizably colder and drier than the air in front of it.
If you measured all the energy related to motion and all the stored
energy in the particles of a substance, you would be measuring the thermal energy of the particles. If
there is movement of the particles, they are also releasing energy in the form
of heat.